Talk:Ahnonay
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Where does it say that Ahnonay was meant to be Garternay? The D'ni would have known "the name of the old homeworld", so Kadish could not have tricked them by saying it was really called Ahnonay. I always thought that Kadish presented his Age by saying "Look. I wrote a new Age called Ahnonay. I can also travel through time. Watch!" And then he would show them the other spheres and trick them.
Also, what is this: "They are tied to the weight devices in Sphere #1 causing the Age’s mechanisms to lock if they are congregated upon the rock surfaces"? The machine in the middle of the lake senses living things and the spheres only rotate when the machine senses no living things on land. Kadish would link his tour group in, show them the Age, and link back to the Ahnonay Gallery. While the group was in the gallery the machine would sense that nothing living was there and it would switch to the next sphere. The puzzle in Uru: The Path of the Shell is that the quabs and crystal trees are there so the machine senses living things after you leave. That is why you must push them in the water or smash them. There is no weight device. 68.160.183.203 10:23, 7 July 2007 (CDT)
- I always thought the Detector detected life forms. It may have been based on weight however, because if it isn't, the Crystal Trees are in fact alive (which seems odd to me). There is also the possibility that it picks up sources of heat (body warmth would cause Quabs and humans/D'ni to be picked up on the sensor). In this case, the Crystal Trees would emanate warmth (which seems more likely than that they are alive to me).
- As for whether he said it was the Ronay homeworld or not, I have no idea. It was over 9000 years ago that the D'ni last saw it, but forgetting its name altogether (especially one so dramatic as "Root of the Great Tree") does seem odd to me too. --D'nara 11:33, 7 July 2007 (CDT)
- The DRC notebook in the Watcher's Sanctuary mentions that Kadish "brought the Ahnonay Book here and claimed that it allowed him to travel through time, back to the D'ni home world as it was, as it is, and as it would be." Which gives the impression that Ahnonay was the name of the small Age which you actually link to from the Sanctuary, but that doesn't seem to be correct. *shrugs* Maybe Kadish said that the little area of "Garternay" they could travel to was called Ahnonay. Maybe Ahnonay was the original name of the Age before Kadish had it and the DRC know about it from other sources. Talashar 14:00, 7 July 2007 (CDT)
I'd like to have at least the following screenshots added, so we can add a gallery (and move the statue image in there):
- Waterfall
- One for each of the first three spheres
Ideally, also:
- The chair/tram
- The office
- The tower (as seen in the first sphere)
It's a fairly big age once you take account things like the maintenance room, so it's only fair to flesh out this article a lot more. Chucker 13:18, 7 October 2007 (CDT)
[edit] Ning trees
Is there any etymology for these? And I mean besides "for their resemblance in shape to trees". Gorobay 19:29, 7 October 2007 (CDT)
- Tweek said their name appears in the game files, and also in a Cyan-internal walkthrough for the beta, by Ryan Miller. I'm afraid neither of that is an easily citable source, which is why I didn't mention them in the article. Other than this, I could only find references on DPWR and Wikipedia, neither of which back it up in any way. Chucker 03:45, 8 October 2007 (CDT)
